University of Bath Wins Podcast Award
The University of Bath has won a prestigious international award for its podcasts of its public lectures, which have proved popular world-wide. The University was given the European Excellence Award for the best podcasts at a ceremony in Berlin last night. There were 600 entrants in total for all the award categories, and the University was shortlisted alongside BASF, the European Commission, Heinz and the University of Oxford.
In its entry submission, the University said that its podcasts had from November 2006 to September 2007 been seen 188,000 times. “We wanted widespread coverage, and our stats show there have been downloads by people from at least 57 countries, including the main European countries, the USA, and other countries as diverse as Argentina, India, Japan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam”, said Tony Trueman, Head of Communications.
Am Mekonnen Jote from Ethiopia, am 28, and am the one who are using the University of Bath podcast lecture through download the lecture material and using my iphone to listen. Really I am wondering by the lectures. The professors are selecting stunning topics (which is too relevant and current issue to the society). Keep it up! Giving such kind of terrific information to the world.
With respect.